Senior Android Developer

Responsibilities

• Build efficient, testable and reusable codes.
• Collaborate with engineers, PMs and designers to quickly ship new requirements.
• Take on tough design and product problems while working cross-functionally across design and engineering to polish the product experience.
• Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges.
• Thrive in a culture of continuous improvement by optimizing web products and related components to achieve and maintain high performance of business applications.
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Requirements

• 2-3 years experience with hands on experience in both iOS  platform with an attitude to learn the other platform.
• Strong passion for Programming in general and iOS App development in specific.
• Experience in source revision control systems such as git, svn.
• Knowledgeable about MVC and MVVM architecture.
• Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON.
• Experience with SQL Lite and other databases.
• Experience with UI development.
• Experience with publishing apps.
• Positive attitude towards work (Dynamic) and good communication skills.

Required iOS skill

• Good knowledge of SWIFT, Xcode and iOS widgets.
• Experience with Core data.
• Experience in integrating 3rd party libraries.
• Experience in building multiple Xcode schemes.

＃Must be Proficient in Swift, Objective C, Apple’s Xcode IDE

＃Knowledge of frameworks and APIs like Foundation, UIKit, and CocoaTouch

＃Apple Human Interface Guidelines

＃OpenGL or Metal, iOS graphics APIs

＃Familiarity with iOS 10 and newer OS versions

＃Knack for benchmarking and optimization

＃Experience on web service integration (SOAP, REST, JSON, XML)

＃Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications

＃Using version control (e.g. SVN, GIT)

＃Excellent debugging and optimisation skills

＃Good to have backend development skills

Job Description
We are looking for an Android developer responsible for the development and maintenance of applications aimed at a vast number of diverse Android devices. Your primary focus will be the development of Android applications and their integration with back-end services. You will be working along-side other engineers and developers working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and creating quality products is essential.

Responsibilities
	Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code
	Design, build, and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Java code
	Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application
	Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
	Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
Skills
	Strong knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes
	Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services
	Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
	Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
	Ability to design applications around natural user interfaces, such as “touch”
	Familiarity with the use of additional sensors, such as gyroscopes and accelerometers
	Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks
	Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
	Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications
	A knack for benchmarking and optimization
	Understanding of Google’s Android design principles and interface guidelines
	Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
	Familiarity with continuous integration

Android Developer: 

Position: Android/Java/Kotlin Developer 

 - Selected candidate is required to be a part of the product development team and have to manage both maintenance and enhancement projects & building Mobile Applications using web services. 

Skills & Expertise we look for: 

1. Should be passionate about user interface design and have skills in Native Android with proficiency in Kotlin and Java. 
2. Out of the box thinking to troubleshoot and solve problems 
3. Should be willing to implement latest technology trends like XML/Compose UI, MVVM pattern, Livedata, Data binding, Pagination, Coroutines and other Jetpack components. 
4. Should be able to analyze customer requirements, estimate the effort, provide the deliverable date to the customer and make sure to ship the feature on time 
5. Experience in Release management like creating, merging, maintaining branches, versioning and releasing apps. Should have experience in publishing apps to play store. 
6. Ready to help team members in their technical challenges 
7. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, document, design, and ship new features

Personality we expect: 

1. You love an Agile work culture and deliver as per plan  
2. You're a lively person who's passionate on what you do  
3. You're a nonstop learner and enjoy sharing the learning to your juniors 
4. You're socially connected with the team and helping others team voluntarily. 
5. You're tech- expertise and effective in tools operation automate the regular process. 
6. You're someone who loves problem-working by seeing the occasion in every challenge and you enjoy learning from failures  
7. Honestly share your experience, feedback, challenges, learning and emotions for the day in your daily diary. 
8. Think of user needs instead of system needs 

You must have prior experience as an Android Developer using Kotlin, Java, Android SDK, Android NDK 

Strong knowledge in different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes 

Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services 

Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices 

Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning 

Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git 

Understanding of Google’s Android design principles and interface guidelines

Senior Android Development Engineer - Chennai

Who we are?

Kaleidofin is a financial platform for the informal sector, which provides solutions tailored to the customer’s goals and are intuitive to use. We are working towards creating fair and transparent financial solutions that can target millions of customers and enterprises in India that don’t have easy access to formal financial planning.

In a very short time span, global investors such as Omidyar Network, Blume Ventures and well known individual investors have supported Kaleidofin’s well thought out business model with $2.8 million in seed funding.

With its focus to harness mobile technology to deliver a paperless experience as well as its focus to harness technology and analytics to predict the right product for the right customer, Kaleidofin aims to become a leading FinTech player bringing financial solutions to everyone.

To know more about Kaleidofin, do visit our site https://kaleidofin.com/

What You’ll Do?

We are seeking extremely smart & independent senior developers who are gung ho about building large scale systems that are going to have a big impact on millions of customers. You will:

• Lead design and development of products working closely with business team
• Independently own software components and co-own entire applications with a small group of fellow developers
• Formally mentor junior software engineers on the team, reviewing design documents, (peer) reviewing code, providing design direction and guidance
• Build performant, scalable, yet secure, enterprise ready android applications with architecture that is fast yet lean on the backend servers enabling them to support millions of users in parallel
• Establish strong engineering best practices and champion their adoption

Who You Need To Be? 


• 4+ years’ experience in android software development and delivery
• Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering (preferably computer science or sister branches) from a reputed institute (preferably IITs, NITs, or other top engineering institutes).
• Strong grasp of CS fundamentals, algorithms and excellent problem-solving abilities. 

• All experience should be from good product development or e-commerce background.
• Able to take ownership of working with multiple teams – Product, Back end, QA, Business from start of development to go-live.
• Must have shown good stability in all your previous associations.
• Skill set
  • Strong knowledge of UI architectural patterns like MVVM(preferable), MVC, MVP, data binding, activity & fragment lifecycle, recycler view, navigation component, layouts (constraint layout preferable), theming etc.
  • Should have actively used retrofit, work managers, android jetpack, Rx java, dagger, retrofit, android sdk, GIT/bitbucket, gradle/ant and very keen on exploring other proven tech stack.
  • Comfortable with test driven development in android with UI testing, instrumented unit testing and unit testing using junits and mockito
  • Have working knowledge of writing backend REST API’s (preferably in Java, spring boot & hibernate) without having to completely depend on backend engineers for delivery
  • Has worked in a fast paced agile organization building stateless and re-entrant/resumable android applications.
  • Should have worked on building applications across wide range of android devices and android versions.
  • Experience of Kotlin (especially kotlin coroutines and koin) is a big plus.